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About the book

Description

PMBOK® Guide – Current Reality, is the first in a 2-book series on transforming this leading guide from its current theoretical state into a practical approach that helps the readers better understand this guide and how to apply on real life projects.

The PMBOK® Guide (A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge®) is a leading standard document with millions of copies in circulation. However, this guide is developed and updated through a large number of volunteers and collaborative work. This approach leads to gaps, errors, inconsistencies, and areas that are commonly misunderstood.

In this first part, we offer a historical perspective, an overview of the guide, and some of the leading myths surrounding it. Another section covers the various gaps, weak areas, and inconsistencies. The last section covers a critical areas of confusion among practitioners and PMI-certified individuals. This confusion creates less than optimal performance in delivering projects, if not failures.

Content

Introduction

Standard, framework, methodology?

What should organizations use?

Closing comments

PMBOK® Guide Overview

Introduction

The main sections

The project management framework

Process groups

Knowledge areas

The processes

Generic standard document

PMBOK® Guide: Historical Perspectives

Introduction

History of the guide

Summary and closing remarks

PMBOK® Guide: Value And Growth

Introduction

Good parts

Terminology

Acceptance

PMI power

Number of certificates holders

What is good about the PMBOK® Guide?

Chapter Summary

Is The PMBOK® Guide Good Enough?

Introduction

What is the PMBOK® Guide?

So is it enough?

Why is the guide not enough?

Closing remarks

The Four Myths About The PMBOK® Guide

Introduction

The project management standard

Best practices

Methodology

PMBOK® Guide and the real world

What Is Missing?

Introduction

A methodology

Organizational system

Tailoring and customization

Project classification

Templates and forms

Project life cycle

Benefits realization

References and External Resources

Suggestion for improvement

What Is Not Emphasized Enough?

Introduction

Planning

Project change management

Scope management and scope creep

Differentiating changes from variances

Project success

Project management team

Organizational context

Professional responsibility

Closing

What Are The Inconsistencies?

Introduction

Terminology – 1

Terminology – 2

Audit

Quality assurance

Pre-project

Project life cycle and project success

Manage the team: where is control?

Acquire the team

Scope and executing

Where is the control reference?

Monitor and control

Conclusion and recommendations

The Project Life Cycle

Introduction

Project life cycle definition

Project life cycle is a variable

Whose perspective

Project owner perspective

Service provider perspective

Closing remarks

Project Phases and Stages

Introduction

Phase or stage

Phases

Stages

Closing comments

The Process Groups

Introduction and overview

How do we use the process groups?

The Confusion

Introduction

Opinion or fact?

So Why the confusion?

Clearing the Confusion

Introduction

Phase perspective

Project Perspective

Project and stage perspectives

Can we combine?

Can we consider as a program?

Conclusion

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